Example sentences of "they [verb] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they intend to make a zombi of her , they will do it there . ’ |
| 2 | Have you , Mr. Speaker , had any intimation from Ministers that they intend to make a statement , today or in the very near future , that would at least enable the House to question Ministers about that meeting and to show that , even if Ministers have no solution to offer , the Opposition have ? |
| 3 | Why do they want to make a meeting at eight o'clock ? |
| 4 | ‘ I do n't think they want to make a profit . ’ |
| 5 | Two girls ( just turned 6 ) approach ; they want to make a television . |
| 6 | Now , they want to make a commitment to the child they handed back . |
| 7 | But , once they had arrived in large numbers , they tried to make a reporter 's life as easy as possible , providing basic material about the country and the war , easy access to military experts and well-protected trips to watch the fighting . |
| 8 | I do n't get the impression that they tried to make a statement by getting more and more obscure . |
| 9 | He and his colleagues were well aware of the more rapid progress in America , and there were regular transatlantic visits by headquarters engineers , but only when they were quite sure of new techniques and had discussed them thoroughly with the British manufacturers were they prepared to make a move . |
| 10 | Although a number of rather insincere sounding press interviews gave no hint of any rift ( in fact they seemed to make a point of stating the reverse , itself a suspicious fact ) it was said that Morrissey had taken exception to Marr 's increasing amount of non-Smiths activities . |
| 11 | Then there was another one , outside the church , they 'd made a hole for a man to sit in there , and he used to sell papers . |
| 12 | I spent the whole of my first year waiting to be tapped on the shoulder and told they 'd made a mistake . |
| 13 | They 'd made a mistake . |
| 14 | I think it 's very instructive that er H B F did n't deny that they 'd made a mistake on this number and just talking about old people , er the fact is that eighty five percent of deaths in the county occur to people aged over sixty five . |
| 15 | Oh so they 'd made a mistake . |
| 16 | I knew they 'd made a lot of money . |
| 17 | They 'd made a vow , you see , all that time ago … |
| 18 | That 's good for them , because they stand to make a commission of hundreds of pounds . |
| 19 | They began to make a head count , lingering over the names with relish , proud of being survivors . |
| 20 | By the second half of February the Germans were beginning to be really worried by the advance — although slow — of the Allies and by the strong resistance of the partisans , so they decided to make a deal with the partisan leaders to save their own lives . |
| 21 | They 're well able to take care of themselves and they do make a mess . |
| 22 | They 've made a contribution towards |
| 23 | I thought you were gon na say they 've made a mess . |
| 24 | still we want this , we want this , they 've made a request to have this done and it 's government funded and so it 's quite an interesting project really just to record things |
| 25 | I mean , they should n't want more than seven per cent because the cost of living , you know , the inflation 's gone down , but then when a bloke gets forty five thousand quid , you know eh , on a firm where they 've a , they 've made a profit , but he got an increase of forty five thousand pound which was of , no , no about forty per cent rather , forty per cent increase in his salary , I mean it 's bloody , I mean , how can , how can they expect , you know , the ordinary working man to put up with bloody awful increase , if , if they go and give bosses increases like that , I mean it does n't make sense . |
| 26 | They can either admit they 've made a mistake , or they can make it compulsory . |
| 27 | They 've made a mistake have n't they ? |
| 28 | er they say , and if then they 've made a mistake you have done what you are told , I mean if you take a big ladder and it 's only a wee fire , a small car bump and then there is a big fire later on , somewhere else and they have n't got their , the right appliances because you 're at that place with the wrong stuff , then that would cause problems would n't it ? |
| 29 | Doctors believe they 've made a breakthough in the treatment of breast cancer using drugs instead of surgery . |
| 30 | Nearly a thousand years ago the first settlers made the Glemmtal valley their home , and ever since they 've made a point of extending a warm welcome to all-comers . |